Ki-Joong Kim Yeungnam University Department of Biology Keongsan Keongbuk 712-749 Korea
Keywords
crossing group, genomic compatibility, lilacs, plastome group, Oleaceae, sequence divergence, Syringa, Ki-Joong Kim, Robert K. J
Description
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White-flowered form of Syringa vulgaris from the Arnold Arboretum of harvard University. Several hundred cultivars of lilacs were developed from 22 wild species through extensive hybridizatino and artificial selection. The parentage of several of these hybrids was confirmed using restriction site analysis of both chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal DNA.